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- noun Plural form of
dauphin .
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Examples
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Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties, — Napoleon and Mathurin Bruneau.
Les Miserables 2008
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The dauphins have no such officer: but I will admit that they had.
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Make no mistake, Roberts and Alia are carefully cultivated dauphins prepared from youth by the powerful few who think it is their birthright to own us all.
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He had been punished on earth with five dead infants, the malformed children forced to walk strapped onto an iron cross, three dead dauphins, and a court that had drifted away one by one now that he was no longer amusing.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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He had been punished on earth with five dead infants, the malformed children forced to walk strapped onto an iron cross, three dead dauphins, and a court that had drifted away one by one now that he was no longer amusing.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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He had been punished on earth with five dead infants, the malformed children forced to walk strapped onto an iron cross, three dead dauphins, and a court that had drifted away one by one now that he was no longer amusing.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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These are but a few of the numerous sham dauphins who have at various times appeared.
Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous
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Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins.
The Younger Set 1899
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Later, the agents of one of those false dauphins so numerous under the
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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When dauphins are as plentiful as blackberries in France and the court never sees a beggar appear without exclaiming: 'Here comes another dauphin!'
Lazarre Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874
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